Stinson L-5
N6438C is a Stinson L-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1942. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Eastern Stearman INC Trustee, a corporation in Leesburg, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 2004 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 19, 1989.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Stinson
- Model
- L-5 · all L-5s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Stinson L-5 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1428
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-435A/0-435C · 190 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1942
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A873D3 (octal 52071723)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 24, 2004
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 19, 1989
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00362306
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eastern Stearman INC Trustee
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 41665 Browns Farm Ln
Leesburg, VA 20176-6025
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N6438C links to the rest of the register
- Stinson L-5 125 registered
- Stinson 1,728 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-435A/O-435C 135 aircraft with this engine series · 190 hp
- Eastern Stearman INC Trustee 110 aircraft in the fleet
- Leesburg, VA 215 aircraft registered in this town
- Leesburg Executive · JYO
- Virginia 5,973 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Stinson L-5 3 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Stinson L-5 14 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-435A/O-435C 5 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-435A/O-435C 2 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N6438C, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Eastern Stearman INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued February 24, 2004, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 19, 1989, 47 years after the 1942 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1428 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6438C according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N6438C: Accident on October 3, 1992 at Houston, TX: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Stinson L-5 · operated under 091
THE PILOT OF THE OTHER AIRCRAFT'S INADVERTENT GROUND LOOP. FACTORS WERE THE LEFT QUARTERING TAILWIND AND THIS PILOT'S INABILITY TO SEE THE OTHER AIRPLANE DURING THE LANDING ROLL.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data